These research notes look at the differing ways in which the basis for including a criterion regarding children's opinions in disputed custody and visitation processes, in the US as compared with Sweden, impacts on the role and place that children's opinions and wishes will have on the process. Sweden's rationale for including children's…

Presents an overview of an evolving program of surveying the judgments of children and significant adults in their lives regarding the importance and existence of children's rights in homes and schools. Provides the history, purposes, design, process, and general all-country composite findings for the project. Identifies cross-country patterns for…

Analyzes young Portuguese students' perceptions of their rights at school and at home. Results reveal that students who have a greater degree of personal limitations, or who live in worse school or family contexts, are the ones who indicate less importance and perceive less existence of rights at school and at home. (Contains 15 references and 5…